YouTuber Beef Turns Fatal in Horrifying Vegas Scene And It Was All Caught on Video
LA’s Black Mayor’s Warning of Trump’s Scary Plans For The City Demands Utmost Attention
Sherri Shepherd Finally Breaks Her Silence on Her Drama With Nia Long
Three Black Women Have Been Found Dead This Year in New England, Here’s Why Some Fear a Serial Killer is At Large
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The Root Interview: Spike Lee, Part Two
The Root caught up with Spike Lee at his temporary offices in New Orleans, where he is filming his latest documentary, If God Is Willing and The Creek Don’t Rise. Read Part 1 of this interview here. The Root: Black politicians in New York and New Orleans—Gov. David Paterson, Rep. Charlie Rangel, Rep. William Jefferson,…
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President Donates Peace Prize Money
President Obama took his Nobel Prize beer (summit) money and gave it to ten charities. Below is a partial list The President Donates Nobel Prize Money to Charity WASHINGTON – President Obama today announced the charities that will receive a portion of the $1.4 million award that comes with the Nobel peace prize. “These organizations…
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CBC Says Obama Isn't Listening
For some reason, the CBC continues to be surprised that President Obama doesn’t seem to pay them much mind Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are headed to the White House for a meeting on jobs Thursday, and they’ll have a few words to say about how President Barack Obama is doing his. The 43-member…
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Nicholas Kristof Wants Teach for America and the Peace Corps to Have a Baby
Nicholas Kristof proposes an interesting public service initiative A generation ago, the most thrilling program for young people was the Peace Corps. Today, it’s Teach for America, which this year has attracted 46,000 applicants who are competing for about 4,500 slots. Peace Corps and Teach for America represent the best ethic of public service. But…
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Oldest African American Dies at 113 in Detroit
Daisy Bailey, who was believed to be the oldest person of African descent in the world, passed away Sunday, a few weeks shy of her 114th birthday. Born in Watertown, Tenn., Ms. Bailey worked on a plantation, keeping house and chopping wood, but in 1943, she decided to move to metro Detroit , ultimately settling…
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Tiger Hires Ari Fleischer to Rehabilitate Image
Ari Fleischer spun a war. What’s a golf superstar to him? Two sources in the golf community have told The Post that Ari Fleischer, the former presidential advisor to George W. Bush and the man who was brought in to help repair the steroid-shattered image of Mark McGwire, has been huddling with Woods, plotting a…
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Letter From Sierra Leone
I expected to be an outsider in Freetown. Despite the same skin color, I’d have little in common with the average Sierra Leonean. We were worlds, and literally, an ocean apart. I tried to put all issues of ethnicity out of my mind. Besides, this trip wasn’t about “connecting with my roots,” as people say.…
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Read/React: "Durbin's Bid to End Sentencing Disparity"
Will Dick Durbin prove able to bridge the gap in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine? Adam Serwer of The American Prospect certainly hopes so because, he says, it is one that must be mended. An excerpt The sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine is a national disgrace. Both President Barack Obama and Attorney…
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Pioneering South Carolina Legislator Freezes to Death Alone
Juanita Goggins, the first Black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature, was found alone in her home, having apparently died of hypothermia. Goggins, the youngest of 10 children, grew up the daughter of a sharecropper in rural Anderson County, about 100 miles northwest of the capital. She was the only sibling to earn a…
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Af-Am Museum Gets 39 Harriet Tubman Artifacts
Underground Railroad expert Charles L. Blockson has donated some items from its most famous conductor On a blue-covered table in a Capitol Hill hearing room, an ordinary hymnal was raised to the status of a historical object with the simple signature of its owner, Harriet Tubman Davis. The book of gospel hymns was among an…